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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Hong Kong harbour. Ferry and harbour traffic. Tour of the busy centre of the Colony. Sailing junks under sail and tied up in the basin of the harbour. Approach to the river port of Shanghai as seen from an arriving ocean liner. ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Journey by car up mountainous roads to Simla through border post. General views of Simla town centre with its buildings and busy street life. British couple go riding in the hills around the town. British military wedding at ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    India, North-West Frontier, 1937. Film shows various military scenes, including numerous scenes of the RAF in action, bombing, shooting and dropping leaflets in Waziristan. Also includes scenes of Indian Army in the field, ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Delhi War Memorial

    Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya.

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Military biplanes in flight.

    Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air Commodore Leonard de Ville Chisman DFC CBE (1899-1974) between 1930s and 1950s. Locations include India, Burma, Hong Kong and Malaya ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Water polo match in crowded open air lido.

    RAF servicemen taking part in football match in winter at altitude in front of beer-drinking spectators.

    Production / Donor Details: Collection of films shot by Air ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Voyage on cargo ship along coast of Burma and Malaya to Singapore. Stops

    in the cities of Rangoom (Docks, Buddhist Temples, City centre and Zoo) and Kuala Lumpur. Visits to the interior. Holiday hotels.Rubber Plantation ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Public buildings of Lutyens New Delhi. Street scenes in Old Delhi. Street stalls and pottery shop. Street Dancers. Brtish military officer's residence. Visiting peddlers witih their wares. Visiting musicians. Close study of the ...

     
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    Chisman (Keal) Collection

    Railway journney. Busy station scenes. Buildings of Lutyens, New Delhi.

    Indian horse show display. The waters off Bombay docks with sailing dhows. RAF launch with crew and naval ships at anchor. Sunderland Flying boat of ...

     
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    INTEREST. Rice cultivation in Ceylon.

    Opening scenic shots of Ceylon, commentary explains that varied crops are produced in Ceylon but the staple food of the people is rice (101). In the paddy fields, buffaloes are used to draw the ploughs. ...

     
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    SECRETS OF INDIAGreat Britain

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    Credits (25). A map of India showing Darjeeling (55). The 2' gauge Darjeeling railway which is 51 miles long and follows the old cart road through the tea gardens (115). The women working in the tea ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. "New Government House - Darjeeling. In Government House grounds". A carriage comes along the drive, escorted by natives. Two women get out of the carriage. The two women and a man talk on the balcony (28). "His Excellency ...

     
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    Great Britain

    INTEREST. "Darjeeling - summer seat of the Bengal government". A shot of the hill road to Darjeeling. Natives herd sheep. Other natives are dragging a roller along (14). More sheep by the side of the railway track (21). A car, with a ...

     
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    USA

    DOCUMENTARY. Record of film made by the Denis-Roosevelt Belgian Congo Expedition.

    RL.1 We follow the journey of the expedition from Belgium via France, Spain, Morocco and the Sahara into the heart of the Belgian Congo. In Morocco, we see ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Film shows the work the church does for Europeans, coloureds and natives in Swaziland.

     
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    INTEREST. The growth of modern Iran under Shah Reza Pahlavi.

    RL.1. "February 10th, 1937": Crowds waiting in Tehran for His Imperial Majesty Shah Reza Pahlavi to open beginning of new railway route to link Tehran with the Persian Gulf. Shah ...

     
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    Great Britain

    A typical day of a Msukuma (Sukuma) man and his family in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

    The film introduces Kinga's home - huts in a clearing - before showing Kinga and his family, who are at work making bread, collecting wood and ...

     
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    DOCUMENTARY. Commander T. Strange-Kolle's expedition to New Guinea.

     
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    Great Britain

    DOCUMENTARY. The reconstruction of two sea engagements of the First World War - the Battles of the Coronel of 1st November, 1914, and the Battles of the Falkland Islands of 8th December, 1914.

    RL.1 In the South Pacific, Sir Charles ...

     
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    DELHI 1938 has video enhanced entry

    Great Britain

    Travelogue of Delhi.

    Main title and credits. Map of India, which zooms in on Delhi. Fade to view of plains near Delhi. Panning movement towards ruins. Commentary talks of the successive cities of Delhi. Tomb of Nasiruddin Muhammad ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur. Includes the Jubilee Review of 1935; a torchlight procession at Jaipur; Nagas dancing; elephant in silver-plated armour; Fatephur Sikri; the Wahanadi Poojun or worshipping of conveyances before the ...

     
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    AMATEUR. Amateur film showing Government buildings in Delhi, a village in the Punjab, the Hassan Abdal cattle fair, camels and the Khyber Pass. Peshawar City, Masuds of the Frontier Zone Rifles in tribal dance, the village of Kabal on the Indus.

     
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    South Africa

    INTEREST. Some of the animals in Johannesburg Zoo.

    Titles (69). General views of the zoo (95). Pelican (106). People looking at lions (127); monkeys (156); baboon (181); parrot (198); bear eating honeycomb (252); lions (297); ...